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Loneliness in Older Adults: Effects, Prevention, and Treatment analyzes loneliness as a complex phenomenon, taking into account the most recent contributions from neuroscience, psychology, medicine and sociology. This volume describes this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, with special emphasis on older people from a plural and heterogeneous perspective: older people in general, older immigrants, older women, older LGTBI, etc. Faced with the impact of this emerging issue, this book provides a comprehensive knowledge of loneliness, contributing scientific knowledge to the practice of evidence. Tools are also provided for professionals, providing intervention protocols with debates and proposals, and effective digital resources to combat it. Tables, images, and tools guide students, academics, and professionals step-by-step in solving the cases raised, through an integrated practice. There is no work that develops this theme from such a plural and pragmatic perspective, covering all the dimensions of loneliness in each of the thematic axes: psychological, neurological, social, and health. Readers are provided feedback for all the knowledge for a comprehensive scientific knowledge based on evidence and given the necessary instrumental skills related to being social and the functioning of our brain. This book is aimed at a very plural audience of researchers, academics and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences including psychologists, sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, and also professionals in the health sciences, among others. - Delivers a tutorial introduction that addresses real cases - Applies theory to practice from an interdisciplinary perspective - Provides tools (chapter introductions, measurement tools, and teaching resources) for a comprehensive approach to individual situations - Compares intervention protocols to allow users to select the most effective technique

Crónica de la música del Caribe urbano es el subtítulo de este libro, todo un clásico actualizado para esta edición cuando están a punto de cumplirse 40 años de su publicación original. La salsa, esa música de los barrios latinos de Nueva York, nació en la década de 1950 en los locales donde se reunían los cubanos, los puertorriqueños o los venezolanos emigrados a Estados Unidos. Y siempre fue la voz del barrio, de los amores contrariados, de la vida precaria, de los malandros y los desarraigados, una forma de llevar el Caribe al escenario de la gran ciudad. La calle está durísima, cantaba Joe Cuba, y con esa frase condensó el espíritu de la salsa. Un son para bailar, para evadirse, para unirse a los compatriotas lejos de la tierra natal. Y aquí está su historia, la de la verdadera música popular que no es folclore, sino el sonido de la calle y del pueblo, con el vigor y la fuerza de artistas como Rubén Blades, Celia Cruz, las Estrellas de la Fania, Willie Colón, La Lupe y docenas de grandes personajes más que se analizan y celebran en este libro.

Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the music--and the industry that grew up around it, including musicians, performances, styles, movements, and production--was available only in Spanish. This lively translation provides for English-reading and music-loving fans the chance to enjoy Cesar Miguel Rondon's celebrated El libro de la salsa.Rondon tells the engaging story of salsa's roots in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela, and of its emergence and development in the 1960s as a distinct musical movement in New York. Rondon presents salsa as a truly pan-Caribbean phenomenon, emerging in the migrations and interactions, the celebrations and conflicts that marked the region. Although salsa is rooted in urban culture, Rondon explains, it is also a commercial product produced and shaped by professional musicians, record producers, and the music industry. For this first English-language edition, Rondon has added a new chapter to bring the story of salsa up to the present.